One should visit newspapers on line: many articles, too numerous to mention, nearly every day that impinge directly upon what one should do, and what one should choose as projects. Here in Canada, I buy the Globe and Mail every day, except Sunday, when there is the New York Times because, although they may be biased to the liberal side of things, one can see clearly that there is much that is valid. Both are most definitely unlike the bigoted posturing of certain TV stations, viz the Fox Network.

Above is an image of a place in India, the huge sub-continent that is attempting to reach the wealth standards of the Big 8: fat chance.
Whatever to do about outsourcing? And, does it really matter? The output of people with degrees in China is 750,000 each year. So, what effect does it have when India has similar figures? More to come, especially as aging workers in North America feel the bite of ill-informed and seemingly blinkered HR personnel.
Two images from the Sudan, the largest African country: one causing the other. In June, 2004, the G8 who were with representatives of many other, poorly run countries, talked about doing something, but in the meantime, people are starving to death, and nothing is stopping these mounted killers:

Bill Cosby has an attitude, and with reason: four articles about his opinions on black kids in the US, and what their elders are not doing for them. Harsh words, indeed. And, from the Brokaw camp, a similar attitude. The Washington Times thinks that his criticism will continue to reverberate. A critique,  with facts, too, from the Economist. Yet more about the Cosby speech: Telegraph and Time.

• 07/14/2004: What the mentally ill face and what it costs the Canadian economy.
• 06/12/2004: Lynne Truss: sad story behind her fame. But this is engaging and, in fact, encouraging for those in mental distress (shades of depression, the impostor syndrome, and of abuse, sadly).
• April, May, or June, I forget: The Impostor Syndrome: not accepted as a real syndrome, but certainly something that depressives know about. This was mentioned in the Globe and Mail, careers section in June 2004, as far as I can remember.
• Letter, early 2004, to Jerry Pournelle: Tax or sweat?
• 05/31/2004: Measuring success, a polemic about standards through the years, from Carleton University (founded 1942: that's as old as some workers feeling their age and worried about pensions?)
• 05/23/2004: Forced retirement, ha!
• 08/22/2004: Tick, tick, tick: statistical "error" is a time bomb
• 05/20/2004: Offshore outsourcing: giving, instead of what?
• 05/19/2004: So what if you have lost your job. Means sweet fa, hein?
• 05/09/2004: Mao rules? His promised land of sweated labour. Not only people with qualifications, but the poor, lost souls who feed the maw.
• 05/03/2004: Older? Need new teeth for that smile? Or to chew that tough steak? Then wait no more; well, no longer than necessary.
• 04/04/2004: UK may institute Granny leave for workers
• 03/12/2004: Outsourced jobs? Bring them back, as if
• 03/02/2004: Botox me baby, I'm too young to look so old, and I all I want to do is work
• 06/10/2002: Where the money did not go: Canadians bilked on health care.
• September 2002: Older workers and the Employment Insurance Regime
• 05/17/2002: How things are on Canadian farms
• 05/16/2002: See what the farm becomes
• 05/02/2001: Still applicable: of course Thatcherism was a killer. This story proves it.
• Life as a jelly fish, almost. And my experience with another pair of idiots.